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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I see what you mean now, thank you. To me, the idea of heads of government each appointing a commissioner is completely in keeping with democratic norms, such as the way ambassadors are appointed to represent their country abroad and in org
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Most are unelected beaurocrats Most what? Do you mean "most MEPs"? Or "most Europeans"? Or "most civil servants"? It's not clear what you're specifically referring to that makes the EU differe
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Presumably the point of an HOV lane is to encourage people who would normally drive in their own vehicle to share a trip with someone else. Obviously the unborn child doesn't have a choice about with whom he or she travels, so such enc
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> a few confused people mill around the rotunda and take selfies. That's like calling 9/11 "a few planes being temporarily diverted from their flight paths". The facts[0] paint a different picture: "13 percent of
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> parliamentary systems tend to have representational seat distribution > the "first past the post" system locks us into 2 parties. What you say is true, but while we're discussing an article about the UK, it is worth s
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
If the goal is to prevent the ambiguous harm of "editorial effect", then I don't think it is fair to remove all platform immunity and punish the platform every time it fails to implement the correct, government-approved &quot
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> What I’ve come to realise since then is it’s not a joke. That’s the intention. Make it too prohibitive, risky, or impossible for public discourse to flow on smaller platforms and services; require the larger ones to become speech polic
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Seems like a great way for nation state adversaries to catfish their way into important repos. /s Seriously, though, what about developers who are looking for someone that brings other skills and interests to the relationship? Or peop
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> But the constitution is silent on any guidance or requirement on addressing new power centralization problems. The federal constitution says that voting is left up to the states, so arguably the centralization problem is ~50 different
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> until it becomes able to sustain life independently You mean get a job and earn a living, or just forage in the woods for berries? > at which point abortion is essentially illegal everywhere in the world except in seriously extreme
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I'm just not convinced by the argument "Nuclear power is safe as long as we don't make any of the mistakes of previous generations". Chernobyl didn't make the mistakes of Windscale; Fukushima didn't make the mi
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Abortions aren't deaths. ... people don't have informed opinions Well, you've definitely proven your point.
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You're right, it sounds like it should be easy to avoid these cartoonishly bad outcomes, but unfortunately reality doesn't always meet our expectations. "Why Germany is digging up its nuclear waste" "But the waste h
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Called it!
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> if human civilization completely collapses Even if it doesn't, nuclear waste storage is still a very expensive and indefinitely long project (assuming you want to keep adding to it, stop it poisoning the ground water, and stop ter
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Sorry to pick up on your specific examples, but I don't know why you are classifying alcohol deaths as under-estimated and abortions as over-estimated(?). For the record, the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics reports there are
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Well, there is at least one study[0] (using data from 123 countries over 25 years) which found that investment in nuclear energy tends to reduce investment in renewables, while not reducing carbon emissions as much. More research is probabl
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
One simple algorithm, just to convince you that this is possible, would be as follows: * All of the members generate a key-pair, and introduce themselves to each other with their public key as their identity. * After a certain time interval
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
So what they want isn't the power to turn off JS in their own browser, but the power to turn it off in other people's browsers (at least the browsers of people developing websites). More seriously, I guess they might want a way
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> interest rates, printing money Many nation states don't have control over interest rates (because their central banks are run independently of the government) or even the ability to print money, if they have adopted another curren
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Here's a more recent example of how well Xi is respecting his neighbours' borders: https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/china-grabs-nepals-t...
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Next up, the update is set to launch on the Goerli testnet, before it heads to Ethereum mainnet. Though the shipping date for the Merge on mainnet has not yet been finalized, the Goerli launch is expected in the coming weeks. If no iss
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Ethereum Inches Closer to the Merge with Sepolia Testnet Launch(cryptobriefing.com)
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I can't explain why your Google results differed. That is strange. Anyway, you're welcome. I'm glad I could help out someone with such a high score.
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Google searching for "there is a surfeit of management at the top" points me to: Dettmer, H. William - The Logical Thinking Process
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> But that, by convention, means a general election. Actually there are two types of VoNC that are relevant here. Parliament could express their lack of confidence in Boris Johnson himself, rather than the entire government. The consti
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Maybe one of the goals is to make driving so tedious that people happily adopt autonomous features. If someone puts up a fake speed limit sign and tricks your self-driving car to travel 30 mph under the actual limit, then you might not care
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> It's a republic, not a democracy, I know what you're trying to say, but please don't contribute to the spread of that toxic meme. https://mises.org/wire/stop-saying-were-republic-not-democra... htt
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Maybe he'll go on to become an Executive Vice President at Microsoft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
A simplistic way of achieving this is that you have to download an app called something like "Signal support for iMessage" which is basically a headless version of the Signal app, which makes a local connection to the iMessage app

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